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| author | Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> | 2010-02-09 17:16:04 +0100 |
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| committer | maximilian attems <maks@debian.org> | 2010-02-22 22:35:58 +0100 |
| commit | 323005e4b8468ab9f7151d883d3df7b75f130911 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e53ecc01c87abc54ea46efe309b2f52cf08c868 | |
| parent | 99b32f0831fe89f78144ca5a1da5c1e6a51dc667 (diff) | |
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initramfs-tools: make the panic argument available in the rescue shell
Sometimes one misses the error message printed by the panic helper function,
for example when attaching a serial console after the fact, or if kernel
messages resulting from udev activity obscure or scroll it away.
Please consider adding some facility like the attached patch.
Thanks,
Feri.
(closes: #569033)
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <maks@debian.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | initramfs-tools.8 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/functions | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/initramfs-tools.8 b/initramfs-tools.8 index 2ba022a..55d413a 100644 --- a/initramfs-tools.8 +++ b/initramfs-tools.8 @@ -504,6 +504,10 @@ set according relevant boot option. \fB\fI break Useful for manual intervention during setup and coding an boot script. .TP +\fB\fI REASON +Argument passed to the \fIpanic\fP helper function. Use to find out why +you landed in the initramfs shell. +.TP \fB\fI init passes the path to init(8) usually /sbin/init. .TP diff --git a/scripts/functions b/scripts/functions index 77de8f3..c34dd4a 100644 --- a/scripts/functions +++ b/scripts/functions @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ panic() modprobe i8042 modprobe atkbd echo $@ - PS1='(initramfs) ' /bin/sh -i </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1 + REASON="$@" PS1='(initramfs) ' /bin/sh -i </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1 } maybe_break() |